Context: April 1976 BAM listings

So here’s a first example of my sources and methods for context. It’s a scan of the music listings from the first issue of BAM (“Bay Area Music”) magazine, April 1976.

Here are the things that went into the spreadsheet:

• the listings for Ruby, which was Tom Fogerty’s band of the period;
• the listings for the Meters, who, I think, shared a bill or two with JGMS in November 1974, which Kreutzmann loved, and at least one song of which JGMS covered (“Just Kissed My Baby”);
• the Roadhog listings (for Corry);
• the Mingus gigs (because one of my favorite Mingus recordings is from KK the next month);
• the Eddie Harris gigs, because I thought this might be Merl’s cousin?;
• the Bloomfield gigs, for no apparent reason;
• Gravenites, see Bloomfield;
• Mandel, because he once shared a stage with Jerry (Matrix late 1968);
• the Rowan Brothers, for heavy Garciacentric relevance;
• the David LaFlamme band, shared stage with Garcia (with NRPS in February 1971, I think 2/28/71).

 More madness than method, of course, but there you go.